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Notes:

Note that the Holy Ghost is behind everything here. HE is behind the prophets of old being quoted who spoke what HE had revealed. He is filling John from within the womb. HIS power has brought Mary to conceive without male seed. HE has come upon Zacharias and Elizabeth to prophecy. All this made known just in the first chapter. There is too much here that could not be known by the human participants, was completely out of their control, was utterly impossible for them to manufacture. HE does not leave off when Jesus arrives either, HIS role is continuous and Jesus gives HIM all credit and obedience.

Key Messages:

Declaring certainty:

kjv@1Corinthians:2:13@ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

kjv@Joel:2:28@ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

kjv@1Corinthians:6:19@ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?